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Please support Howard and Helen’s walk for suicide prevention help

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Karl

Howard Hall and Helen Durando walk for suicide prevention this weekend. You can read more about the walk at analog impulse: “Shine where it matters”. Give.

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Two talks from TED to watch *today*

Posted on January 15, 2011 by Karl

TEDXToronto: “Neil Pasricha: The 3 A’s of awesome”: TEDXHouston: “Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability”: Related: “1000 Awesome Things” Presentation Zen: “We don’t seek your perfection, only your authenticity” This post brought to you by Dave Rogers whose latest post … Continue reading →

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Rafe Colburn: “sustained hardship … pushes people down Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.”

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Karl

Rafe Colburn on rc3.org writes about the ever more ugly political environment: “Things never get better by getting worse”

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Two questioning reports on social networking and culture

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Karl

Jeffrey Rosen in the NYTimes reports on the effects social networking will have on our efforts to redefine ourselves: It’s often said that we live in a permissive era, one with infinite second chances. But the truth is that for … Continue reading →

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Heroes – Locks of Love

Posted on May 16, 2010 by Karl

Last week Rose and the salon she works at, “Salon 360″, put on an event to collect hair donations for “Locks of Love”. This morning I got the chance to watch a documentary on the organization on HBO titled “Locks … Continue reading →

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On accepting love

Posted on May 5, 2010 by Karl

The following John Perry Barlow piece is deep on a few levels. It works as both a criticism of our culture, and as a call to inspiration. It builds to a lesson I need to learn, and I know plenty … Continue reading →

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Desk chairs, the conventional wisdom is wrong

Posted on May 2, 2010 by Karl

Bloomberg Businessweek: “Your Office Chair Is Killing You”

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Seth Finkelstein’s Pew Research answers

Posted on February 24, 2010 by Karl

Seth Finkelstein has posted his answers to a Pew survey on the future of the Internet, and Google making us stupid (or not) in a thought provoking yet grounded (which is rare on the Web – admit it!) post. Seth … Continue reading →

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Douglas R. Hofstadter “analogy as the lifeblood, so to speak, of human thinking”

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Karl

Douglas R. Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition: My point is simple: we are prepared to see, and we see easily, things for which our language and culture hand us ready-made labels. When those labels are lacking, even though … Continue reading →

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Charlie Lord, RIP

Posted on February 21, 2010 by Karl

“Charlie Lord, Mental Ward Photographer And Activist, Dies At Age 90″. Charlie Lord’s work, which exposed the horrors of Byberry State Hospital here in Philadelphia in the 1940s, was recently profiled by NPR: At Byberry, Lord sneaked a small Agfa … Continue reading →

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